In baseball there are generalists, who keep their eye on the ball and see the big picture; football is full of special-duty charac...ters who are very limited in terms of their range but have depth. Baseball represents America before the frontier ended, when there was plenty of space and plenty of time, and philosophic anarchists roamed around on verdant fields "doing their thing" with a free and reckless abandon. The game is relaxing and not particularly taxing on the players, who play many times each week. Football is tremendously difficult on the players and is so tiring that sixty minutes of clock time--which amounts to several hours of real time--exhausts them. Baseball developed when we thought nature was a limitless reservoir and we would always live in abundance. Football reflects a different world view; everything has to be fought for, resources are precious, hostile people (guards, monster men) are everywhere and in such a world you have to grab what you can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to ... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territ...ories of Europe which are under German influence.... I furthermore charge you to submit to me as soon as possible a draft showing the ... measures already taken for the execution of the intended final solution of the Jewish question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a pastoral game, baseball attempts to close the gap between the players and the crowd. It creates the illusion, for instance, t...hat with a lot a hard work, a little luck, and possibly some extra talent, the average spectator might well be playing; not watching. For most of us can do a few of the things that ball players can do: catch a pop-up, field a ground ball, and maybe get a hit once in a while.... As a heroic game, football is not concerned with a shared community of near-equals. It seeks almost the opposite relationship between its spectators and players, one which stresses the distance between them. We are not allowed to identify directly with Jim Brown any more than we are with Zeus, because to do so would undercut his stature as something more than human.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term--meaning that the creation of a simple photo...graph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching--there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
only total expression ... expresses hiding: I'll have to say everything to take on the roundness and withdrawal of the deep dark: less than total is a bucketful of radiant toys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start gri...nning "Good morning" at total strangers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question is still asked of women: "How do you propose to answer the need for child care?" That is an obvious attempt to struct...ure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: "If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever th...ey wanted with this legendary body for one afternoon, at least 75 percent of the guys in the country would elect to beat her up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »